Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-256) and index.
Wagon Train By-Laws, 1849 -- Articles of Agreement, 1864 -- Outfit for Oregon, 1847 -- Emigrant's guide to California, 1849 -- Prairie Traveler Handbook for Overland Travelers, 1859 -- Meeker's Memorandum of Outfit and Eatables, 1852 -- Narcissa Whitman, into the unknown, 1836 -- Thomas Jefferson Farnham, go west, young man! 1839 -- Jesse Applegate, a boy's grand adventure 1843 -- Catherine Sager, Oregon Trail orphan 1844 -- Abigail Scott, where many fond hopes have been laid 1852 -- Ezra Meeker, the trail was a battlefield 1852 -- Helen Stewart, oh dear, oh dear! This is going to Oregon 1853 -- Fincelius G. Burnett, army Indian fighter on the Overland Trail 1865 -- Mrs. Lucy Alice Ide, trail's end, thus we all are scattered 1878.
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Provides paintings, photographs, newspaper articles, and fictionalized diaries of real people who traveled the Oregon Trail throughout the nineteenth century.
Seeing the elephant.
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Frontier and pioneer life-- Oregon National Historic Trail, Juvenile literature.
Overland journeys to the Pacific, Juvenile literature.
Pioneers-- Oregon National Historic Trail, Diaries, Juvenile literature.
Frontier and pioneer life-- West (U.S.)
Overland journeys to the Pacific.
Pioneers.
Frontier and pioneer life.
JUVENILE NONFICTION-- History-- State & Local.
Overland journeys to the Pacific.
Pioneers.
Travel.
Oregon National Historic Trail, Description and travel, Juvenile literature.